Here are some of the most significant bugs from the past week in the BugBlog.
Apple's iPod Updater 2005-09-23 includes the iPod shuffle update. This gives the shuffle the same update as the other iPods got in the 2005-09-06 update. This means a number of unspecified bug fixes. Shuffle off to http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ipodupdater20050923.html for the update.
Microsoft Internet Explorer users may be sitting ducks for an exploit that attacks via a bug in the XmlHttpRequest object in IE. Security researcher Amit Klein has posted details about the problem at http://www.cgisecurity.com/lib/XmlHTTPRequest.shtml, earlier than he originally planned because the recent Mozilla 1.0.7 update fixes a similar bug, and shares some of the same concepts. Users of Internet Explorer 6.0 on a fully-patched Microsoft Windows XP SP2 computer are vulnerable. Attackers may be able to bypass security, and disclose or manipulate information because of the bug. A story in eWeek at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1864174,00.asp says that Microsoft is investigating.
Try to install Adobe Acrobat 6.x or 7.x, either the Professional or Standard versions on Windows, and you may see one of these error messages
Error 1402: Could not open key [key name]
or
Error 1406: Could not write value Folders to key [key name].
Adobe has two possible solutions for this: either remove all previously-installed versions of Acrobat first, or reset all your permissions to default in the Registry. See http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/329137.html for details.
See the BugBlog for continuing coverage of bugs and other things that go
wrong with your computer.
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